2019 Women's T20 Challenge
The 2019 Women's T20 Challenge was the second season of the Women's T20 Challenge, a Twenty20 cricket tournament established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2018. Unlike previous year, this year it was a three team tournament instead of a one-off match, featuring a new team called IPL Velocity. It was held from 6 to 11 May 2019 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur, coinciding with the  2019 IPL's playoffs. IPL Supernovas won their second title, when they beat IPL Velocity in final by 4 wickets.


2019 Women's T20 Super League
The 2019 Women's T20 Super League was the inaugural Women's T20 Super League competition that took place in South Africa. It took place in September 2019, with 4 teams taking part made up of the best players in South Africa. Devnarain XI won the competition by topping the round-robin group.


2019 Women's T20 Super League, Competition format
The four teams played each other once in a round-robin, therefore playing three matches. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format.


2019 Women's T20 Super League, Competition format
The league worked on a points system with positions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:


2019 Women's T20 Super League, Competition format
Win: 2 points. Tie: 1 point. Loss: 0 points. Abandoned/No Result: 1 point.


2019 Women's T20 Super League, Squads
The 2019 Women's T20 Super League was launched at Tuks Cricket Clubhouse in Tshwane, with teams selected from a pool of 52 players.


2019 Women's Tour de Yorkshire
The 2019 Women's Tour de Yorkshire was a two day cycling stage race staged in Yorkshire over 3 and 4 May 2019. It was the fourth edition of the Women's Tour de Yorkshire, organised by Welcome to Yorkshire and the Amaury Sport Organisation. It was the second time the race was organised as a stage race. For the first time, the race was live broadcast in full on ITV4 in 2019.


2019 Women's Tour de Yorkshire, Teams
Eighteen teams professional teams and a British national team, each with a maximum of six riders, participated in the race:


2019 Women's Tour of Scotland
The 2019 Women's Tour of Scotland was the inaugural edition of the Women's Tour of Scotland, a women's cycling stage race held in Scotland, UK. It was run from 9 to 11 August 2019. The race was scheduled for 3 stages, covering a total of 359.2 kilometres (223.2 miles), but the race's opening stage was abandoned due to adverse weather conditions. It was classified as a class 2.1 event by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).


2019 Women's Tour of Scotland
The race was won by American rider Leah Thomas, riding for the Bigla Pro Cycling team. Having finished fourth in the second stage in Perth – won by Canada's Alison Jackson (Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank) – Thomas won the final stage in an eight-rider sprint at Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, and with bonus seconds accumulated at intermediate sprints during the day, Thomas assumed the leader's jersey from Jackson by five seconds. The podium was completed by Norwegian rider Stine Borgli, riding for a Norwegian national team, a further two seconds back, after two third-place stage finishes.


2019 Women's Tour of Scotland
The Bigla Pro Cycling team won the other three jerseys that were on offer during the race. Thomas was the winner of the points classification alongside her general classification victory, while the team's leader Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig led the mountains classification from start-to-finish, and Nikola Nosková was the winner of the young rider classification, after a ninth-place finish on the final stage allowed her to take the jersey from Rally UHC Cycling's Emma White. The best Scottish rider during the race was Scottish junior national road race champion Anna Shackley, who finished in thirteenth place overall.


2019 Women's Tour of Scotland, Stages, Stage 1
The opening stage of the race was abandoned after 62 kilometres (39 miles), due to adverse weather conditions. Prior to the abandonment, two intermediate sprints and one categorised climb were held and these points counted towards the respective classifications. The red sprinters' jersey went to BTC City Ljubljana's Eugenia Bujak on countback from Alé–Cipollini's Marjolein van't Geloof, while Bigla Pro Cycling rider Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig was first on the ascent at the Grange of Lindores to take the blue and white polka-dot jersey for the mountains classification.


2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup
The 2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2019 Vitality Women's Twenty20 Cup was the 11th cricket Women's Twenty20 Cup tournament. It took place in June, with 35 teams taking part: 33 county teams plus Scotland and Wales. Warwickshire Women won the Twenty20 Cup, as winners of Division 1, therefore achieving their first title.


2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup
The tournament followed the 50-over 2019 Women's County Championship, and was subsequently followed by the Twenty20 2019 Women's Cricket Super League, competed for by regional teams.


2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Competition Format
Teams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned the Champions. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format.


2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Competition Format
The championship works on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:


2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Competition Format
Win: 4 points. Tie: 2 points. Loss: 0 points. Abandoned/Cancelled: 1 point.


2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Teams
The 2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup was divided into three divisions: Division One and Division Two with nine teams each, and Division Three with 17 teams, divided into regional groups. Teams in Divisions One and Two played each other once, and teams in Division Three played each other either once or twice.


2019 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup
The 2019 Women's East Asia Cup was a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket tournament, which was held in South Korea in September 2019. All of the matches were played at the Yeonhui Cricket Ground in  Incheon, where a round-robin series was followed by a final and a third-place play-off.


2019 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup
The Twenty20 East Asia Cup is an annual competition featuring China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea that was first played in 2015 and alternates annually between a men's and women's event. The women's event was won by China in 2015 and by Hong Kong in 2017. The men's events in 2016 and 2018 (both featuring the Hong Kong Dragons – a side representing Hong Kong's Chinese community – instead of their senior national team) had been won by South Korea and Japan, respectively. The 2019 edition was the first to be granted official T20I status after the International Cricket Council (ICC) had granted T20I status to matches between all of its members from 1 July 2018 (women's teams) and 1 January 2019 (men's teams).


2019 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup
China defeated Hong Kong in the final by 14 runs to claim the title.


2019 Women's U-19 European Handball Championship
The 2019 Women's U-19 European Handball Championship was the twelfth edition of the European Women's U-19 Handball Championship, held in Győr, Hungary from 11 to 21 July 2019.


2019 Women's U-19 European Handball Championship, Draw
The draw was held on 26 February 2019 in Győr.


2019 Women's U-19 European Handball Championship, Tournament awards
The all-star team and awards were announced on 21 July 2019.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship
The 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was held at the Suphanburi Indoor Stadium in Thailand, from 23 to 27 May 2019. It was the third wheelchair basketball world championship for women in the under-25 age category. Eight nations competed: Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Thailand, South Africa, Turkey and the United States. The event took the form of a round-robin tournament, with each team playing all the other teams once. The eight teams then went into quarter-finals, while the bottom two played each other for world ranking. The winners of the semi-finals faced each other in the final, while the losers played for bronze. The competition was won by the United States, with Australia taking silver and Great Britain claiming bronze.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Competition
The 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was the third wheelchair basketball world championship for women in the under-25 age category. The event is held every four years; it was previously held in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, in 2011, and in Beijing, China, in 2015. Thailand was chosen as the host in November 2018.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Competition
Eight nations competed:  Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Thailand, South Africa, Turkey and the United States. The teams were divided into two pools. A draw ceremony was conducted in Bangkok on 1 April 2019,  presided over by Ulf Mehrens, the President of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF), and Chutinant Bhirombhakdi, the President of the Paralympic Committee of Thailand. Great Britain, Japan, South Africa and Thailand were assigned to Pool A, and Australia, Germany, Turkey and the United States to Pool B. The competition format called for the teams to play each team in their pool. Based on the rankings, they then played a finals series. Because there was only eight teams, all advanced to the quarter-finals. The schedule was released in April 2019.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Venue
The event was held at the Suphanburi Indoor Stadium, a 4,000-seat stadium in the heart of Suphanburi.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Teams, Australia
Head Coach: Stephen CharltonAssistant Coach: Sarah GrahamAssistant/Technical: Dave HegertyPhysiotherapist: Bonnie KerrTeam Manager: Jane KylePhysiologist: Steph Shell


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Teams, South Africa
Nthombizile Nthombeni: Head CoachJames Mthethwa: Assistant CoachGerhard Smith: Team ManagerKate Douglas: Sport MassageWiseman Dlamini: Second Assistant CoachCharles Saunders: Chef De Mission


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Teams, Germany
Dennis Nohl : TrainerMarina Mohnen :  Assistant TrainerFranziska Vogel : Physical TherapistMathis Garvels : PhysiotherapistLeutheuser :  Team Doctor Marie Scheidemann : Technician


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Teams, Thailand
Head Coach: Ali Arda OzturkAssistant Coach: Tawatchai JaisinTeam Manager: Wootisak PinwisetAssistant Coach: Akapo KunpraditAssistant Coach: Erdener Atalan


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Teams, Great Britain
Daniel Price: Head CoachSimon Fisher: Assistant CoachRosie Williams: Team ManagerLaura Heathcote: PhysiotherapistNathan Payne: Performance AnalystAndrew Hogg: DoctorTanakom Sheepsomsong: MechanicJayne Ellis: Performance Director


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Teams, Turkey
Murat Saltan: Head CoachAbdullah Bayram: Assistant CoachÖnder Yurdagül: Team-ManagerAyça Uyan: PhysiotherapistServet Ergün: MechanicSeyhan Candan: Companion


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Teams, Japan
Sayaka Yamasaki: Head CoachErika Yoshida: Assistant CoachJun Nomura: TrainerTakumi Saito: TrainerMiho Yoshikawa: Team StaffKeigo Hirata: AnalystNuriya  Narita: InterpreterYurie Miyamoto: Secretary General


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Teams, United States
Lawerance "Trooper" Johnson: Head CoachMelanie Brionez: Assistant CoachMieko Chambers: Assistant CoachTrice Ham: Team ManagerKarla Francioni: Athletic Trainer


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Teams, United States
The South African team was named on 8 May. The team included many players who were new to the sport, and some had never travelled on a plane before. The team officials were under no illusions about the difficulty of winning games, but saw the tournament as an opportunity to build their wheelchair basketball program, with an eye to qualifying for the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Teams, United States
Similarly, the Australian U25 team, known as the Devils, was unashamedly a development team, with only one of its eleven players being a member of the senior team, the Gliders: Annabelle Lindsay, who had played in the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg in 2018. Most of the youthful side would be eligible to play in the next U25 championship, and three would be eligible to play in the next three. In contrast, Team Great Britain regarded itself as a serious contender, having won in Beijing in 2015, and the U24 European Wheelchair Basketball Championship in 2016 and 2018. The team included five members of the senior team:  Joy Haizelden,  Maddie Thompson, Kayla Bell, Siobhan Fitzpatrick and Charlotte Moore.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Preliminary round
The first day opened well for South Africa, which scored its first ever win in the competition, with a 16-35 win over the host nation. Team GB got off to a shaky start against Japan, but claimed a 47-30 win. The Devils performed well against Germany, with Lindsay racking up 27 points and 12 rebounds in a 55-37 win. On the final game of the day, the USA was too good for Turkey.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Preliminary round
On the second day, Japan notched up its first win, against South Africa; the USA had little trouble with Germany; the Devils held Turkey to a scoreless 11-0 first quarter before going on to post a second win; and Team GB coasted to an easy win against Thailand.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Preliminary round
On the third day, Germany defeated Turkey 46-24 to secure the third spot in Pool B, and Japan defeated Thailand to grab second place in Pool A. With another easy victory, this time 80-12 over South Africa, Team GB claimed the top spot in Pool A. The final game of the round was a fight for the top spot in Pool B between the Devils and the USA. The USA concentrated on shutting down Lindsay, who had been averaging 35 points per game.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Preliminary round
This time she scored only 10 points, but Teisha Shadwell also proved a threat, and ended the game with a double-double of 11 points and 12 rebounds. When the USA rotated its players, the Devils began to gain the upper hand, winning the third quarter by two points. In the end, the USA won 56-31, and, undefeated, secured the top place in Pool B.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Finals
In the quarter-finals, Japan staged a thrilling 18-8 final quarter fight back to defeat Germany 42-37. In a hard-fought match, Japan's pressure held Germany to a dismal 19 percent scoring efficiency, while Amane Yanagimoto racked up 21 points, and Kotone Usui had a double-double with 10 points and 17 rebounds. It was Japan's first ever quarter-final win, and ensured its highest ever ranking. For the Devils it would be their third semi-final appearance, with their place locked in with a 72-12 demolition of South Africa.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Finals
Lindsay posted a double-double of 32 points and 24 rebounds, Georgia Bishop-Cash and Jess Cronje also posted double-doubles, and most of the rest of the team made the scoreboard. A brave Thailand held the USA to just 31 points at half time, its lowest half-time score of the tournament, but could not stop them, and the USA went into the semi-finals undaunted, posting a final score of 65-10. In the last quarter-final, Team GB defeated Turkey 70-15, with four players scoring in the double digits.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Finals
In the crossover games, Germany bounced back from its defeat by Japan to defeat Thailand 52-14, and Turkey celebrated its first ever win, a 48-25 victory over South Africa. In the first semi-final, the USA beat Japan 78-24. In the second, the Devils came up against the undefeated Team GB. Both sides subjected the other to intense defensive pressure, with Team GB forcing the Devils into a series of eight second violations. Maddie Thompson was pulled off after she racked up three personal fouls, and the British defence struggled with height of Lindsay and Shadwell.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Finals
A three-point buzzer beater from Joy Haizelden left Team GB just two points down at half time, but the Devils pushed their lead out to four points by three quarter time. Team GB's press forced multiple turnovers, but the Devils' pressure caused Team GB to miss many shots, and they ended with an average shooting accuracy of just 22 percent. In the end, Team GB's undefeated run ended, and the Devils were into the final with a 42-36 win.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, Finals
South Africa won the 7th/8th place game against Thailand, Germany defeated Turkey in the 5th/6th place game, and Team GB rallied after its defeat by the Devils to claim the bronze medal with a win over Japan. In the anticlimactic final game, Lindsay lined up against five of her team mates from the University of Texas at Arlington Lady Movin' Mavs wheelchair basketball team: Nina Welfle, Rose Hollermann, Abby Dunkin, Josie Aslakson and Elizabeth Becker. The USA were too good, posting a 62-25 win. It was the USA's second win, and the Devil's third silver in a row.


2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, MVP and All Stars
The 2019 Women’s U25 World Championship All-Star Five was announced at the closing banquet on the final night of the tournament at the Songphanburi Hotel, in Suphanburi. The All-Star Five is made up of the best 1 point player, 2 point player, 3 point player and 4 point player, plus the Most Valuable Player of the Tournament, as voted by their fellow competitors.


2019 Women's Under–21 Tri Nations Hockey Tournament
The 2019 Women's Under–21 Tri Nations Hockey Tournament was an invitational women's under–21 field hockey competition, hosted by Hockey Australia. The tournament took place between 3–8 December 2019 in Canberra, Australia. A total of three teams competed for the title.


2019 Women's Under–21 Tri Nations Hockey Tournament
India won the tournament, finishing top of the pool after the round-robin stage. Australia and New Zealand finished second and third, respectively.


2019 Women's Under–21 Tri Nations Hockey Tournament, Teams
Including Australia, 3 teams were invited by Hockey Australia to participate in the tournament.


2019 Women's Under–21 Tri Nations Hockey Tournament, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 20 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 3.33 goals per match.


2019 Women's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup
The 2019 Women's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup is the latest edition of the Women's Volleyball Kor Royal Cup, the tournament patronized by Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, The Princess Royal of Thailand for women's senior volleyball clubs, also known as 2019 Sealect Tuna Women's Senior Volleyball Kor Royal Cup Thailand Championship due to the sponsorship deal with Sealect Tuna. A total of 6 teams will compete in the tournament.


2019 Women's Volleyball Thai-Denmark Super League
2019 Women's Volleyball Thai–Denmark Super League (Thai: วอลเลย์บอลหญิงไทยเดนมาร์คซูเปอร์ลีก 2019) was the 7th edition of the tournament. It was held at the MCC Hall of The Mall Bangkapi in Bangkok, Thailand 19–23 March 2019.


2019 Women's World Draughts Championship
The 2019 Women's World Draughts Championship at the international draughts will be 11–23 June 2019 in Yakutsk, Russia under the auspices International Draughts Federation FMJD. Sixteen female players will competing in the tournament, which play as a round-robin.


2019 Women's World Draughts Championship
World Champion 2017 Zoja Golubeva from Latvia will not play in the World Championship.


2019 Women's World Draughts Championship, Rules
The final classification will be based on the total points obtained.


2019 Women's World Draughts Championship, Rules
If two or more players share the same place, the following factors will be used to define the places occupied:


2019 Women's World Draughts Championship, Rules
3. the best result obtained in order of the classification


2019 Women's World Draughts Championship, Rules
If this criteria will not decide final order, then to share the places 1, 2 or 3 will be played tie-break with Lehmann-Georgiev system, other places will be shared.


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships
The 2019 IFF Women's World Floorball Championships was the 12th staging of the Women's World Floorball Championship, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the International Floorball Federation (IFF), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament took place in Neuchâtel, Switzerland from 7 to 15 December 2019. Switzerland played hosts for this event for the third time.


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships
Sweden won the tournament defeating Switzerland, 3–2, in the final game.


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Draw
The draw took place on 14 February 2019 at Ittigen, Switzerland.


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group A
O. Kauppi  07:19 (PP), 41:44Karjalainen  09:21, 31:21, 47:53Vallenius  14:33Nieminen  41:20Saarikoski  43:02Lampinen  45:36Piispa  58:07 (PP)


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group A
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 =  04:59 Oona KauppiError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 0 S2 = 2 GT1 =  GT2 =  10:39 Sofia LeinoError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 0 S2 = 8 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 2 PN = 7


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group A
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 =  7:27 Michelle WikiError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 =  7:51 Andrea GamperliError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 0 S2 = 3 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 0 S2 = 5 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 2 PN = 5


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group B
Steen  08:59Tschöp  09:10, 20:49, 44:42Boberg  10:31, 53:15Wibron  17:35, 21:35, 43:17 (PP), 45:42, 49:10Delgado Johansson  18:26Hultgren  27:36, 59:36Fjellstedt  38:45, 58:53Granstedt  53:57, 56:42


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group B
Bočanová  03:26Urbánková  05:09Martináková  14:15Kapcová  39:23Ratajová  39:56, 43:01, 59:12Hanzlíková  43:51Paloncyová  45:28Repková  50:58, 59:44


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group B
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Michaela Sponiarova  02:09 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 4 S2 = 1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 0 PN = 5


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group B
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Moa Gustafsson  04:22 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Emelie Wibron  05:00 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 6 S2 = 1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 2 N2 = 0 PN = 7


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group B
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Nela Kapcova  03:40,  11:41 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Vendula Berankova  6:18 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 2 N2 = 0 PN = 6


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group B
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Stephanie Boberg  10:24 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 4 S2 = 0 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 0 PN = 4


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group C
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 5 N2 = 3 PN = 5


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group C
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Kristi Rickberg  34:01 GT2 =  02:01 Marie GundersenError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 =  34:14 Sofie KristiansenError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 =  37:01 Rikke Ingebrigtsil HansenError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 2 S2 = 4 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 3 PN = 6


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group C
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Mahiro Shimizu  04:55 GT2 =  6:49 Diana KlavanError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Yui Goto  05:54 GT2 =  18:41 Kristel KopelError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Mahiro Shimizu  22:46 GT2 =  29:26 Diana KlavanError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Mahiro Shimizu  33:04 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 4 S2 = 5 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 4 N2 = 3 PN = 9


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group C
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Cecilia Di Nardo  0:29 GT2 =  03:01 Sandra CraigError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 =  3:57 Sofie KristiansenError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 2 S2 = 4 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 2 PN = 6


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group C
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Heidi Rod  29:45 (53:00) GT2 =  19:23 Fuka ShibataError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 2 S2 = 1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 1 PN = 3


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group C
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Lina Voldby  1:34 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 2 S2 = 1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 0 PN = 3


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group D
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 4 N2 = 8 PN = 9


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group D
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 4 N2 = 2 PN = 4


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group D
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 4 N2 = 5 PN = 5


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group D
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 7 N2 = 3 PN = 7


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group D
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Lina Chu  25:13 GT2 = Jessica Birks  01:05Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Michelle Lok  29:32 GT2 = Blasie Hodges  12:00Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 2 S2 = 2 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 2 N2 = 2 PN = 4


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Preliminary round, Group D
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 2 S2 = 4 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 0 PN = 6


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Knockout stage, Play-off round
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 3 N2 = 9 PN = 10


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Knockout stage, Play-off round
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 3 N2 = 8 PN = 13


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Knockout stage, Play-off round
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 9 PN = 9


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Knockout stage, Play-off round
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 3 N2 = 13 PN = 13


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Knockout stage, Quarterfinals
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Oona Kauppi  2:06 GT2 = Viktoria Grossova  0:57Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 3 S2 = 2 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 1 PN = 6


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Knockout stage, Quarterfinals
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Isabelle Gerig  2:09,  4:18 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Margrit Scheidegger  10:47 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 5 S2 = 0 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 2 N2 = 0 PN = 5


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Knockout stage, Quarterfinals
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Tereza Urbankova  5:10 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 4 S2 = 2 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 0 PN = 6


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Knockout stage, Quarterfinals
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Iza Rydfjall  1:22 GT2 =  18:52 Alexandra KurthError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Sara Steen  3:23 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Stephanie Boberg  9:22 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 8 S2 = 1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 3 N2 = 1 PN = 9


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Knockout stage, Semifinals
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Emelie Wibron  18:36 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Stephanie Boberg  22:24 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 3 S2 = 2 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 2 N2 = 0 PN = 5


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Knockout stage, Semifinals
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Isabelle Gerig  36:51 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Flurina Marti  51:37 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 2 N2 = 0 PN = 9


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Knockout stage, Bronze Medal Game
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Oona Kauppi  18:54  41:40 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 2 S2 = 3 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 0 PN = 5


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Knockout stage, Final
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Moa Gustaffson  12:02,  22:58 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 0 PN = 5


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Placement round, 13–16th place semifinals
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 8 N2 = 1 PN = 9


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Placement round, 13–16th place semifinals
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 2 N2 = 0 PN = 7


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Placement round, 15th place game
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 0 S2 = 2 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 0 S2 = 3 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 0 PN = 3


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Placement round, 13th place game
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 2 S2 = 2 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 0 N2 = 0 PN = 4


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Placement round, 9–12th place semifinals
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Cecilia Di Nardo  7:58 GT2 =  14:49 Amanda YeapError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 3 S2 = 1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 1 PN = 4


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Placement round, 9–12th place semifinals
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Blasie Hodges  13:50 GT2 =  11:50 Martina HallError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Jessica Birks  54:02 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 1 S2 = 2 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 2 N2 = 1 PN = 3


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Placement round, 11th place game
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Amanda Yeap  12:08 GT2 =  16:33,  16:53 Amanda BartrimError: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 1 S2 = 2 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 1 S2 = 3 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 1 PN = 5


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, Placement round, 5–8th place semifinals
Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 = Theresa Beppler-Alt  54:32 GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = -1 S2 = -1 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: S1 = 0 S2 = 3 GT1 =  GT2 = Error: Goals/Progression mismatch: N1 = 1 N2 = 0 PN = 3


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships qualification
The 2019 IFF Women's World Floorball Championships qualification  is a series of tournaments to decide teams which will play in the 2019 Women's World Floorball Championships. The 2019 World Championship will feature 16 teams. 1 place were allocated to the hosts, Switzerland. The remaining 15 places will be determined by a qualification process, in which entrants from among the other teams from the five IFF confederations will compete.


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships qualification, Qualification process
The distribution by confederation for the 2019 Women's World Floorball Championships will be:


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships qualification, American qualification
The American qualification were played between 8 and 9 February 2019 in Detroit, United States.


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships qualification, Asia-Oceania qualification
The Asia-Oceania qualification were played between 27 January to 1 February 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand.


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships qualification, European qualification, Group EUR1
The European qualification group EUR1 were played between 30 January to 3 February 2019 in Gdańsk, Poland.


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships qualification, European qualification, Group EUR2
The European qualification group EUR2 were played between 30 January to 3 February 2019 in Trencin, Slovakia.


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships qualification, European qualification, Group EUR3
The European qualification group EUR3 were played between 30 January to 3 February 2019 in Gdańsk, Poland.


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships qualification, European qualification, Group EUR4
The European qualification group EUR4 were played between 31 January to 3 February 2019 in Trencin, Slovakia.


2019 Women's World Floorball Championships qualification, European qualification, Ranking of third-placed teams
The two best third-placed teams from the groups qualified for the final tournament. Matches against the fifth-placed team are not included in this ranking.


2019 Women's World Junior Squash Championships
The 2019 Women's World Junior Squash Championships was the women's edition of the 2019 World Junior Squash Championships, which serves as the individual world Junior championship for squash players. The event took place in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia from 30 July to 4 August 2019.


2019 Women's World Junior Squash Championships
Rowan Reda Araby of Egypt is the defending champion of this competition after defeating compatriot Hania El Hammamy in the final of the 2018 edition.


2019 Women's World Junior Team Squash Championships
The 2019 Women's World Junior Team Squash Championships was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The event took place from 5 to 9 August 2019.


2019 Women's World Junior Team Squash Championships
The defending champions of this tournament is Egypt women's team that won against Malaysia in the 2017 edition.


2019 Women's World Nine-ball Championship
The 2019 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship was a professional nine-ball pool tournament that took place at Jinghai International Holiday Hotel & Resort in Sanya, China from 16 to 19 December 2019.


2019 Women's World Nine-ball Championship
Kelly Fisher won the title with a 9–7 victory over Jasmin Ouschan in the final, remaining undefeated in seven matches during the tournament. It was Fisher's second Women's World Nine-ball Championship win, following her first in 2012.


2019 Women's World Nine-ball Championship, Format
The 64 players who had been qualified for the Women's World Nine-Ball Championship were divided in 8 groups (each group had 8 players). In the group stage, the double elimination was played and all matches were race to 7. From each group four players qualified for the final round (Last 32).


2019 Women's World Nine-ball Championship, Knockout draw
The results for the knockout stage (Last 16) is shown below.


2019 Women's World Nine-ball Championship, Knockout draw, Final
The final was played between two European players - Kelly Fisher (England) and Jasmin Ouschan (Austria). Alternate break format was played. Both player have only two break-and-run, Kelly Fisher in the racks no. 6 and 10, Jasmin Ouschan in the racks no. 13 and 15.


2019 Wong Tai Sin District Council election
The 2019 Wong Tai Sin District Council election was held on 24 November 2019 to elect all 25 members to the District Council.


2019 Wong Tai Sin District Council election
The pro-democrats scored a historic landslide victory in the election amid the massive pro-democracy protests by taking all the seats in the council. The pro-Beijing councillors were completely wiped out as a result, with Democratic Party becoming the largest party.


2019 Worcester City Council election
The 2019 Worcester City Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect councillors to the Worcester City Council in England.


2019 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships
The 2019 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, the 20th edition of the Aesthetic group gymnastics competition, was held in Cartagena, Spain from May 17 to 19, at the Sport palace of Cartagena.


2019 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners
Daria Kuklina, Polina Sosina, Alina Bolbat, Lyubov Palchikova, Anastasiia Ponikarova, Valeriya Uryupian, Sofiia  Ostrovskaia, Viktoriia Prudnikova, Marina Onishchenko


2019 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners
Camilla Berg, Venla  Niemenmaa, Emmi Nikkilä, Siiri Puuska, Ella Ratilainen, Riina Ruismäki, Viivi Saarenrinne, Pihla Silvennoinen, Milja  Vuorenmaa


2019 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners
Aino Handelberg, Angelica Kangas, Aurora Kapanen, Emma Koivunen, Karla Kuuskoski, Alli Laaksonen, Amanda Laukkonen, Alina Panula, Johanna Pulkkinen, Sara Rouhiainen, Malla Vartiainen, Olivia Yli-Juuti


2019 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners
Iina Anttila, Greta Hagberg, Tytti Ilvessalo, Viivi Inkinen, Erliette Kapanen, Ulrika Kohvakko, Kukka Koskenvuo, Iiris Koski, Kia Lehtiniemi, Olivia Soini, Ariana Temin


2019 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners
Maria Zhilina, Anastasia Skuzovatkina, Polina Furtseva, Elizaveta Shumikhina, Olga Liapina, Valeriia Sysoeva, Angelina Shnaider, Alina Baibekova


2019 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Medal winners
Anastasia Pavlenova, Anastasiia Zrazhevskaia, Iuliia Smagina, Arina Maslova, Polina Salnikova, Anastasia Antoshina, Marina Arzhanykh


2019 World Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Championships, Results, Senior
The top 12 teams (2 per country) and the host country in Preliminaries qualify to the Finals.


2019 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
The 2019 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held at the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Canada, from March 2 to 3, 2019.


2019 World Allround Speed Skating Championships – Men
The Men competition at the 2019 World Allround Speed Skating Championships was held on 2 and 3 March 2019.


2019 World Allround Speed Skating Championships – Women
The Women competition at the 2019 World Allround Speed Skating Championships was held on 2 and 3 March 2019.


2019 World Aquatics Championships
The 2019 World Aquatics Championships were the 18th FINA World Aquatics Championships, held in Gwangju, South Korea from 12 to 28 July 2019. The city had previously hosted the 2015 Summer Universiade aquatics events in the same venues.


2019 World Aquatics Championships, Host selection
The host was announced on 19 July 2013 on the biennial General Congress of FINA in Barcelona, the host-city of the 2013 World Aquatics Championships. Budapest was awarded the 2021 Championships in the same vote, though in 2015 it was announced that they will host the 2017 Championships due to Guadalajara's withdrawal. Fukuoka was subsequently awarded the 2021 event.


2019 World Aquatics Championships, Host selection
The awarding was controversial within Korea as the South Korean government claimed that the mayor of Gwangju had forged the signature of endorsement. As a result, the Korean government initially refused to fund the event, but eventually agreed upon passage of a law that required National Assembly approval for future bids for major sporting events.


2019 World Aquatics Championships, Symbols
The mascots for the event were a pair of otters, chosen due to their natural habitat being in the mountains near Gwangju, as well as their symbolizing "swimmers' passion for challenge", according to the organizing committee. The slogan of the Championships, meanwhile, was "Dive Into Peace".


2019 World Aquatics Championships, Venues
Most of the competitions were held at the Main Aquatics Centre, built for the 2015 Summer Universiade, also hosted in Gwangju. The Aquatics Centre hosted the swimming and diving competitions, and there were two adjacent outdoor temporary venues for synchronised swimming and water polo.


2019 World Aquatics Championships, Schedule
A total of 76 medal events were held across six disciplines. Beach water polo was introduced as a demonstration, non-medal event.


2019 World Aquatics Championships, Medal table
China topped the medal table, although the United States won the highest number of medals in total. Host nation South Korea earned one bronze medal, from Kim Su-ji in the Women's 1 m springboard.


2019 World Aquatics Championships, Participating nations
Out of 209 FINA members, 191 nations took part in the Championships, as well as a Refugee Team of FINA Independent Athletes. 194 teams initially entered, setting a new record number of participating nations. However, Lesotho and the United Arab Emirates subsequently withdrew their athletes and did not appear on the start list.


2019 World Aquatics Championships, Media coverage
In the United States, NBCUniversal holds rights to the event.


2019 World Archery Championships
The 2019 World Archery Championships were held in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands from June 10 to June 16, 2019. The event served as a qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, with each men's and women's team that made the quarter-finals earning three quota places for the respective team. There were also quota places for the top four individuals in the singles competition, for those who failed to get quotas in the team events.


2019 World Archery Championships – Women's Team Recurve
The women's team recurve competition at the 2019 World Archery Championships took place from 10 – 16 June in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.


2019 World Archery Championships – Women's Team Recurve
43 countries entered the full quota of 3 archers into the qualification round, thus becoming eligible for the team competition. The combined totals of the 3 archers from each country in the qualification round were added together, and the 24 teams with the highest combined scores competed in the elimination rounds.


2019 World Archery Championships – Women's Team Recurve
Countries reaching the quarterfinals earned a team qualification spot (and corresponding 3 individual qualifying spots) for the 2020 Summer Olympics.


2019 World Archery Youth Championships
The 2019 World Archery Youth Championships was the 16th edition of World Youth Archery Championships. The event was held in Madrid, Spain 19-25 August 2019, and was organised by World Archery. Junior events were held for those under 21, and Cadet for those under 18. Seven world records were broken during the course of the championships. The best performing nation was South Korea.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 2019 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships was held in Stuttgart, Germany from October 4–13, 2019. The championships took place at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, and was the third time the city of Stuttgart hosted the event following the 1989 and 2007 editions, and the fifth time Germany hosted it.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
As of October 2, 92 federations had registered gymnasts for the event, with a total of 288 men and 259 women.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Sam Mikulak of the United States and Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos of France won the Longines Prize for Elegance. Both mark a first for their respective countries; de Jesus dos Santos is the first gymnast from France to win this prize, and Mikulak is the first male gymnast from the United States to win one.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Men's results, Team
Russia won their first team gold since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The team event also marks the first time for Chinese Taipei to make the team final and as a result they qualified for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Men's results, Individual all-around
Kim Han-sol of South Korea withdrew and was replaced by first alternate Loris Frasca of France. Cuba's Manrique Larduet also withdrew and was replaced by second alternate Robert Tvorogal of Lithuania.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Men's results, Individual all-around
2018 World champion Artur Dalaloyan and bronze medalist Nikita Nagornyy, both of Russia, returned to the podium for the second consecutive year, winning silver and gold, respectively. Ukraine's Oleg Verniaiev, the 2016 Olympic silver medalist, won his first World medal in the all-around. Defending silver medalist Xiao Ruoteng of China narrowly missed the all-around podium for the first time this quad, finishing behind Verniaiev by less than three tenths.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Men's results, Floor
Carlos Yulo, the youngest competitor in the final, improved on his bronze-medal finish from the 2018 World Championships to win the Philippines' first-ever World title in artistic gymnastics. No Japanese gymnast made the podium for the first time since the 2009 World Championships; the team's highest finisher in qualifications, Daiki Hashimoto, was the third reserve.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Men's results, Pommel horse
Max Whitlock of Great Britain won his third pommel horse title. Rhys McClenaghan of Ireland became his country's first world medalist by earning the bronze.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Men's results, Rings
Turkey's İbrahim Çolak won the country's first-ever World title in artistic gymnastics. For the first time in the 2016–2020 Olympic cycle, not a single still rings Olympic medalist managed to finish on the podium. The current Olympic champion, silver medalist, and bronze medalist finished fourth, fifth, and sixth, respectively, the same order as their 2016 Olympic finish.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Men's results, Parallel bars
Two-time and reigning World Champion Zou Jingyuan of China failed to qualify to the final to try and win a third title in a row. Despite this, he earned the highest score of the competition in the team final with a 16.383. Joe Fraser of Great Britain became the first British athlete to win the gold on the parallel bars.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Men's results, Horizontal bar
Brazil's Arthur Mariano became the first Brazilian athlete to win the gold medal on the high bar.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Women's results, Team
After qualifying in eighth place, Italy won the team bronze medal, their first team medal at a World Championships since 1950. Meanwhile, the United States extended their streak to five consecutive World Championship team gold medals, tying the record set by Romania (1994-2001). The USA's team gold medal is also the 21st World Championship medal for Simone Biles, giving her the record for the most World Championship medals won by a female gymnast. The previous record, 20 medals, was first set by Svetlana Khorkina in 2001 and tied by Biles at the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Women's results, Individual all-around
Sixth-place qualifier Liu Tingting of China withdrew and was replaced by teammate Tang Xijing, who had been affected by the two-per-country rule; the start list was not reseeded and Tang replaced Liu in the top rotation group.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Women's results, Individual all-around
Simone Biles continued to extend her record streak, winning her fifth title. Tang would go to win silver, matching China's best-ever finish from Jiang Yuyuan at the 2010 World Championships. Angelina Melnikova's bronze is her first individual Worlds medal. The defending silver and bronze medalists, Mai Murakami of Japan and Morgan Hurd of the United States, both did not make their countries' respective teams for the World Championships.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Women's results, Balance beam
Eighth-place qualifier Ellie Black of Canada withdrew after sustaining an injury during the all-around final earlier in the week and was replaced by first alternate Kara Eaker of the United States; Eaker previously had qualified into the final, before dropping to first alternate following an inquiry about her score in qualification.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Women's results, Balance beam
Simone Biles' gold medal in the event was her 24th World Championships medal, breaking the record for the most world medals earned by a single gymnast. The previous record, 23 medals, had been set by Belarusian gymnast Vitaly Scherbo at the 1996 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Women's results, Floor
Eighth-place qualifier Nina Derwael of Belgium withdrew from the competition as a precaution to avoid aggravating a lingering injury, allowing first reserve Brooklyn Moors of Canada to take her place. Moors had previously qualified to the final, before an inquiry about her score in qualification dropped her to first alternate.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Qualification, Men's results, Team
The top 9 teams qualify to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, excluding the teams already qualified during the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.


2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Qualification, Women's results, Team
The top 9 teams qualify to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, excluding the teams already qualified during the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.


2019 World Athletics Championships
The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships (Arabic: بطولة العالم لألعاب القوى) was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held between 27 September and 6 October 2019 in Doha, Qatar, at the renovated multi-purpose Khalifa International Stadium, but reduced to 21,000 available seats. 1,772 athletes from 206 teams competed in 49 athletics events over the ten-day competition, comprising 24 events each for men and women, plus a mixed relay. There were 43 track and field events, 4 racewalking events, and 2 marathon road running events. The racewalking and marathon events were held in Doha Corniche.


2019 World Athletics Championships
It was the first edition of the competition under its modified name, having previously been known as the World Championships in Athletics, and the last held before the IAAF assumed its new identity as World Athletics. It was also the first time the competition was in the Middle East and also the first time it ended in October. Due to the hot climate, there were no morning sessions and events were held in the late afternoon onward. Long-distance road events were scheduled to start around midnight local time. For the first time, sponsors of national teams were permitted to appear on the kit that the athletes compete in.


2019 World Athletics Championships
Some athletes competing in Doha criticised the lack of spectators, the flat atmosphere, the heat, and the timing of events, and also questioned why Doha was awarded the championships at all; despite this, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe described the 2019 Championships as the best in history, in terms of the quality of performances produced by the athletes.


2019 World Athletics Championships
Three world records were set, and six championships records were broken. A total of 43 nations reached the medal table, and 68 nations had an athlete with a top eight finish. Based on the IAAF scoring tables, the best male and female performers were men's shot put gold medallist Joe Kovacs, and women's long jump gold medalist Malaika Mihambo.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Host selection
Three cities entered the bidding process to host the event. Assessment of the bids was carried out by the IAAF Evaluation Commission, which consisted of three IAAF Council Members (IAAF Vice President Sebastian Coe, Abby Hoffman and Katsuyuki Tanaka), three IAAF Office members (Essar Gabriel, Nick Davies and Paul Hardy), public relations staff from Dentsu (Ryo Wakabayashi) as well as marketing staff from Athletics Management & Services (Nigel Swinscoe).


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Host selection
Both Doha and Eugene are hosts of IAAF Diamond League meetings. Doha had previously applied for and failed to win the bid for the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, and had hosted the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, a member of Qatar's ruling family, led the Doha bid.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Host selection
The bid was part of a movement among the leaders of Qatar to make the country a destination for international sports tourism, within the framework of the Qatar National Vision 2030, which included the hosting of global sports events, such as the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and a Doha bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Host selection
Eugene had hosted the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Barcelona hosted the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics and the 2010 European Athletics Championships, as well as the annual Míting Internacional d´Atletisme Ciutat de Barcelona. The final selection of the host city was carried out on 18 November 2014 in Monaco.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Host selection
Barcelona was eliminated in the first round of voting, receiving only six of the 27 votes, then Doha prevailed in the final round with fifteen votes to Eugene's twelve. The IAAF later awarded Eugene the hosting rights for the next championships, which was later moved to 2022. IAAF President said that the Doha bid would develop the country and its community through sport. José María Odriozola, the president of the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation, said that the worst bid had won the vote and "the only thing they have there is money".


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Host selection
In 2016, the French newspaper Le Monde claimed the selection of the host would have been paid with US$3.5 million transferred between October and November 2011 according to the US tax administration, to Papa Massata Diack, the son of Lamine Diack (former president of the IAAF). In 2019 The Guardian reported documents showing an agreement to pay US$4.5 million to Sporting Age, a Singapore-based company linked to Papa Massata Diack, in order to transfer the value of World Championships ticket sales and sponsorship to Qatari officials.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Host selection
In 2019, the French prosecutors charged some protagonists for corruption: the head of beIN Sports Yousef Al-Obaidly, the former president of IAAF Lamine Diack, and the head of Paris Saint Germain Nasser Al-Khelaifi. A French judge opened investigations into Dentsu and Athletics Management & Services in 2019, on the basis that the companies (which had been involved in the host evaluation) had played key roles in the diversion of funds to Papa Massata Diack.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Host selection
The selection of Doha as the host city was later criticised by numerous athletes present at the championships. Marathon fifth-placer Volha Mazuronak said organisers were disrespectful to athletes to make them compete in the conditions, and 50 km walk world champion Yohann Diniz was unhappy that the road events had not been located in the air-conditioned stadium instead. Decathlon world record holder Kevin Mayer said organisers had not prioritised athletes in respect of the climate and low spectator attendance.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Host selection
In response to low attendances, the stadium capacity was reduced to 21,000 for the championships, with large banners covering the empty seats, yet on the third day less than half these seats were filled despite the organisers giving free tickets to migrant workers and children. In response to the issue, IAAF Chief Executive Jon Ridgeon worked with the local organisers to take attendance-boosting measures. Ridgeon suggested that sessions were organised late in the evening for European television audiences, which meant working Qataris had gone home before the last event finals had begun (around 11 pm local time).


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Host selection
He also said the IAAF's plan had been for the championships to serve people across the Middle East, but the Qatar diplomatic crisis had blocked people from other countries in the region from attending. Three days before the competition it was reported that 50,000 tickets had been sold for the 10-day event, signalling a 90% reduction in sales compared to the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. In response, local organisers purchased tickets and distributed them for free to ensure sizeable attendances, and also ran an initiative to allow spectators to enter the stadium and fill vacant seats left by audience members who left mid-session.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Host selection
The issue of human rights in Qatar was also raised as over 6,000 migrant labourers, some involved in construction and cleaning of the host stadium, had lodged complaints over unpaid wages against Qatari companies. IAAF President Coe responded that the championships was a way to achieve social change and "rise above political structures".


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Venue
The decision to hold the World Athletics Championships in the Middle East presented organisational challenges due to the hot and humid climate in Doha in September and October. In previous years the World Championships had mostly qualifying competitions in morning sessions and finals mostly in afternoon sessions. Weather conditions meant that traditional arrangement was not workable and in Doha the schedule was redesigned to have a "pre-session" in the afternoon and a "main session" in the evening. The Khalifa International Stadium used an open-air conditioning system to bring the temperature of the stadium to below 25 °C (77 °F), which was a world first for a stadium.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Venue
In collaboration with Seiko, a starting blocks camera view was broadcast from the Khalifa International Stadium's Block Cams. The intimate views from the blocks were the subject of complaint by the German Athletics Association, which said its female sprinters had not been consulted on the broadcasting of the images. The IAAF agreed to only show Block Cam images of athletes immediately prior to the starting pistol and to delete video data at other times on a daily basis. Gina Lückenkemper said the technology was "unpleasant" as it captured close images of athletes' crotches in tight clothing.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Venue
The stadium also features an advanced lighting system, which was used in the introductions of some event finals, projecting coloured lines on to the lane boundaries and the competing athlete's names moving around the 400 m track. New graphical detail of athletes' performance was provided in television coverage, including top speed of athletes in the track and jumping events, angle and release speed in the throws, and the distance of each phase of a triple jump.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Venue
Non -stadium racewalking and marathon events were set on a looped course around the Doha Corniche – a 7-kilometre (4.3 mi) waterfront promenade. Organisers set the start time around midnight local time for road events to avoid the hottest conditions, although the women's marathon still began at a temperature of 32 °C (90 °F) and humidity over 70%. The IAAF and local organisers undertook preparation for the conditions by recruiting medical experts to inform their preparations, as well as increasing water and refreshments, ice baths, and medical support along the route.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Venue
It sent advisory notices to all national federations in the six months before the competition with recommendations for athletes. However, postponement of the events until after the championships was deemed a last resort. The IAAF President Sebastian Coe stated his belief that the humidity was a greater challenge for runners than the temperature itself.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Venue
The Khalifa Stadium hosted the 2019 Asian Athletics Championships in April before the world event.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Venue
For training and warm-up purposes, an outdoor venue attached to the Khalifa Stadium is available for athletes in running and jumping events, while all athletes (including throwing events) have full training facilities available at the Qatar Sports Club venue near Doha Corniche. At the Aspire Zone, indoor training facilities are available for running and jumping disciplines while a separate outdoor throws training venue is also available.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Venue
View of the Doha Corniche which was the route for the marathon and racewalking events.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Organisation, Mascot
The event mascot was "Falah", an anthropomorphic falcon dressed in athletic gear in the maroon colour of the flag of Qatar. The mascot was designed by a Filipino expatriate in Doha, Theodore Paul Manuel, and his design was announced as the winner of the design competition on Qatar's national sports day. Twenty-one sketches were submitted and a group of young Qataris were invited to vote on their favourite designs. Following this, the head of the Qatar Olympic Committee Joaan bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and members of the local organising committee narrowed the choices down to a shortlist of three for final voting.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Entry standards
The IAAF announced that athletes would qualify by their IAAF World Rankings position, wildcard (reigning world champion or 2019 IAAF Diamond League champion) or by achieving the entry standard. Following criticism that the qualification method was biased the IAAF reverted to their traditional qualifying method. The qualification period for the 10,000 metres, marathon, race walks, relays, and combined events ran from 7 March 2018 to 6 September 2019. For all other events, the qualification period runs from 7 September 2018 to 6 September 2019. Wild Card as:


2019 World Athletics Championships, Entry standards
Countries who have no male and/or no female athletes who have achieved the Entry Standard or considered as having achieved the entry standard (see above) or qualified relay team, may enter one unqualified male athlete OR one unqualified female athlete in one event of the championships (except the road events and field events, combined events, 10,000 m and 3000 m steeplechase).


2019 World Athletics Championships, Entry standards, Target numbers
At the end of the qualification period, the 2019 IAAF World Rankings published on 6 September 2019 were used to invite additional athletes to the World Championships where the target number of athletes had not been achieved for that event through other methods of qualification. The maximum of three athletes per country in individual events is not affected by this rule. National athletics associations retained the right to confirm or reject athlete selections through this method. Where the highest ranked athletes were from a country that had already had three or more entrants for the event, or where the national association rejected an entrant, the next highest ranked athlete became eligible for entry via world rankings.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Results, Men, Track
* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Results, Women, Track
* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Results, Mixed
* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Event summaries, Sprints
In the men's 100 metres, the semi-finals were dominated by world leader Christian Coleman from the United States, finishing in 9.88 seconds while no other qualifiers broke 10 seconds. In the final, defending champion American Justin Gatlin got a good start to gain a step on the field, except Coleman got a better start, gaining that step on Gatlin and extending his lead to a dominating victory in 9.76 seconds, a new personal best and world-leading time for the season that becomes the 6th best in history, just 2 ticks behind Gatlin's best. Returning to form, Canada's Andre De Grasse closed and nearly caught Gatlin at the line in 9.90, a new wind-legal personal best, though he has run as fast as 9.69 wind-aided.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Event summaries, Long distance
The women's marathon began at midnight local time on 28 September with the temperature at 32 °C (90 °F) and 70 per cent humidity. By the end of the race, 28 of the 68 starters had dropped out, including all three Ethiopian runners. Five runners in a lead pack stayed together for the first 20 km (12 mi) and the pack was down to only four athletes by 35 km (22 mi), including Ruth Chepngetich and Edna Kiplagat of Kenya, Bahrain's Rose Chelimo and Namibia's Helalia Johannes. Chepngetich broke out into a sprint in the final lap to finish at 2:32:43, followed by Chelimo (2:33:46) and Johannes (2:35:15).


2019 World Athletics Championships, Event summaries, Long distance
The women's 10,000 metres began the following night with Germany's Alina Reh taking an early lead before falling back and eventually dropping out. By the ninth lap, a lead pack of three Kenyans and three Ethiopians developed. By the half-way point, the Netherlands' Sifan Hassan had latched on to back of the lead pack, headed by Kenya's Rosemary Wanjiru and Agnes Tirop. Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia surged with four laps remaining with Hassan following close behind. Hassan took the lead on the final lap and finished in 30:17.33, more than three seconds ahead of Gidey, and almost eight seconds ahead of Tirop in third place.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Event summaries, Hurdles
In the men's 400 m hurdles, most of the top ranked athletes reached the final, though world number 4 Ludvy Vaillant was eliminated.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Event summaries, Jumps
The last place qualifier to the men's long jump final was Jamaica's Tajay Gayle with 7.89 m (25 ft 10+1⁄2 in). In the final on 28 September, Gayle jumped a personal best 8.46 m (27 ft 9 in) to take the lead in the first round. No other jumper would beat that mark. World leader Juan Miguel Echevarría from Cuba jumped 8.25 m (27 ft 3⁄4 in) while giving up the entire 20 cm (7.9 in) width of the board. His jump was bettered by American Jeff Henderson with an 8.28 m (27 ft 1+3⁄4 in) three jumpers later. In the third round, Echevarría improved to 8.34 m (27 ft 4+1⁄4 in) and Henderson responded again with 8.39 m (27 ft 6+1⁄4 in), which ultimately settled the medal positions. In the fourth round, Gayle improved his winning jump to 8.69 m (28 ft 6 in).


2019 World Athletics Championships, Event summaries, Throws
With world record holder and defending champion Anita Włodarczyk absent from the women's hammer throw due to injury, world leader DeAnna Price seized the opportunity on the second throw of the competition with 76.87 m (252 ft 2 in), then a best of 77.54 m (254 ft 4 in) in the third round – no athlete could match her.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Event summaries, Throws
The next thrower into the ring was Włodarczyk's Polish teammate Joanna Fiodorow, who threw her personal best 76.35 m (250 ft 5 in) to win the silver medal and drop Zalina Petrivskaya's first throw of the competition to third place after the first three throwers. Although Petrivskaya threw 74.33 m (243 ft 10 in) in the third round and maintained that position, China's Wang Zheng threw the hammer to 74.76 m (245 ft 3 in) to grab the bronze medal in the middle of the fifth round.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Event summaries, Walks
The men's 50 kilometres walk started at midnight local time on 29 September. Most walkers were wary of starting too fast; only the 20K world record holder, Japan's Yusuke Suzuki, went out fast, opening up a gap just a few minutes into the race. By 5K he had a 10-second lead over a chase pack and by 20K he had expanded the lead to two minutes. Suzuki crossed the halfway point at 2:01:07 and, by 35K, Suzuki had opened his lead up to 3:34.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Event summaries, Walks
Suzuki first showed signs of cracking, stopping at the water station at 44K before getting back on stride. At that point he still had two minutes on China's Niu Wenbin, an additional minute on Portugal's João Vieira, with the next chaser Canada's Evan Dunfee another minute back, now ahead of China's Luo Yadong. Suzuki struggled through the final lap while Vieira and Dunfee were applying the pressure. Both passed Niu, with Dunfee closing down his gap to Vieira. Suzuki got across the finish line first, only 39 seconds ahead of Vieira, who held off Dunfee by only three seconds.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Event summaries, Walks
In its second appearance since the event's debut in 2017, the women's 50 kilometres walk began simultaneously with the men's. A lead quartet of China's Liang Rui and Li Maocuo with Italy's Eleonora Giorgi and Portugal's Inês Henriques crossed the 10K mark together, before Giorgi and Henriques dropped back. Liang continued to expand her lead with Li following comfortably ahead of Giorgi as the athletes reached 40K mark. Liang won the race in 4:23:26, more than three minutes ahead of her teammate Li, to become the first Chinese athlete to win the world title at that distance. Giorgi finished almost four minutes behind Li to win bronze.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day one to three
One final was contested on the first day: Kenyan Ruth Chepngetich won the women's marathon in 2:32:43, beating the defending champion Rose Chelimo of Bahrain in the first ever World Championships race to start at midnight. Braima Sundar Dabo of Guinea Bissau won plaudits for assisting competitor Jonathan Busby of Aruba to the finish of the men's 5000 m heats. A record 17 athletes qualified for the women's pole vault final. Cuban Juan Miguel Echevarría's jump of 8.40 m (27 ft 6+1⁄2 in) was the best performance in men's long jump qualifying for ten years.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day one to three
Christian Coleman had the first sub-10 run of the championships in the men's 100 metres heats. Athletics Weekly noted the lack of spectators on the first day and the difficultly in travelling to the stadium, while decathlon World Champion Kevin Mayer was highly critical: "it's a disaster, there is no-one in the stands and the heat has not been adapted at all... We haven't really prioritised athletes when organising the championships here".


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day one to three
There were six finals on the second day of competition. DeAnna Price became the first American to win the women's hammer throw while Tajay Gayle became Jamaica's first men's long jump world champion, surprising the field by adding 37 centimetres to his personal best and improving to tenth on the all-time lists. Sifan Hassan broke the African dominance of the women's 10,000 metres that stretched back to 1997, by taking gold for the Netherlands. America's Christian Coleman won the men's 100 metres final in a time of 9.76 seconds. The qualifiers for the mixed 4 × 400 m relay resulted in the first world record of the championships, with the American quartet finishing in 3:12.42 minutes. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran the fastest time ever recorded in the heats stage of the women's 100 metres with 10.80 seconds.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day one to three
On the third day, five finals were scheduled. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won her fourth world title in the women's 100 m, recording her second fastest time ever (10.71) to hold off the British record-breaking Dina Asher-Smith. In the, Christian Taylor also won a fourth title in the men's triple jump, with compatriot Will Claye finishing runner-up as he had in 2017, and Hugues Fabrice Zango winning Burkina Faso's first ever World Championships medal in third.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day one to three
The mixed 4 × 400 m relay final brought another world record (3:09.34) and a twelfth gold medal for Allyson Felix, taking her ahead of Usain Bolt on the all-time medal tally. Poland drew interest in the mixed relay for its choice to place men on the two middle legs – the opposite of all the other teams. Anzhelika Sidorova won her first world title in the women's pole vault final, competing as an Authorised Neutral Athlete.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day one to three
Liu Hong was the last winner of the day, taking her third World Championships gold in the women's 20 km walk, where Qieyang Shenjie and Yang Liujing helped make it a medal sweep for the Chinese team. Liu, Felix and Fraser-Pryce all returned victorious to the World Championships after having had children in the previous two years, and in her post-race interview Fraser-Pryce said she hoped to inspire other women to start families and return to elite sport.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day four to six
Day four featured six gold medal events. In men's discus throw Daniel Ståhl won Sweden's first gold medal in the event, while runner-up Fedrick Dacres won Jamaica's first discus medal and Lukas Weisshaidinger became Austria's first male World Championships medallist. Mariya Lasitskene defended her title in the women's high jump, winning on countback ahead of Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who set a world under-20 record of 2.04 m (6 ft 8+1⁄4 in).


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day four to six
Sprint finishes from Muktar Edris and Selemon Barega made it an Ethiopian 1–2 in the men's 5000 metres final, where the early leader Jakob Ingebrigtsen collapsed over the line and missed a medal. Beatrice Chepkoech was dominant in the women's steeplechase, establishing a significant lead on her way to a championships record of 8:57.84 minutes. In her first global final, Halimah Nakaayi surprised with a Ugandan national record of 1:58.04 minutes to win the women's 800 metres. Karsten Warholm kept the men's 400 m hurdles final to the form book by retaining his world title, while Abderrahman Samba's bronze medal added the host nation Qatar to the medal table.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day four to six
On the fifth day, the United States team won three of the four finals. Donavan Brazier broke records that had lasted over 30 years in the men's 800 metres final with a championship record and American record of 1:42.34 minutes. Silver medallist Amel Tuka gave Bosnia and Herzegovina's best ever performance of the championships. Noah Lyles had a clear victory in the men's 200 metres final. Sam Kendricks won the men's pole vault on countback in a closely fought final – the medallists Kendricks, Armand Duplantis and Piotr Lisek celebrated together on the landing mat with a synchronised backflip.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day four to six
The fourth gold medallist of the evening was Australia's Kelsey-Lee Barber, who surprised China's Liu Shiying and Lü Huihui by moving up from fourth to first place with her final throw of the competition. In qualifying Amalie Iuel set a Norwegian record as the second fastest qualifier in the women's 400 m hurdles, while Abdalelah Haroun of the host nation Qatar exited the men's 400 m in the first round.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day four to six
There were three finals on the sixth day. Poland's Paweł Fajdek won a record fourth straight title in the men's hammer throw final, and officials played a role in the minor medals – fourth-placer Wojciech Nowicki was also awarded a bronze medal as irregularities with Bence Halász's bronze medal-winning throw was adjudged to have disadvantaged Nowicki, while Great Britain was unsuccessful in its appeal over Nick Miller's second round throw, which looked to be good enough for a silver medal but was judged a foul.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day four to six
In his international debut, Grant Holloway won the gold medal in the men's 110 metres hurdles final, where defending champion Omar McLeod collapsed after hitting several hurdles. McLeod crashed into Orlando Ortega impeding the Spaniard and although the Spanish team's appeal to have the race re-run was rejected, Ortega was instead awarded an additional bronze medal. Dina Asher-Smith won the women's 200 metres final by a large margin, becoming Britain's first global champion in the women's sprints with a British record time. In the first day of combined events, thirty points separated the top three in the men's decathlon (Damian Warner, Pierce LePage and Kevin Mayer) while in the women's heptathlon Katarina Johnson-Thompson set the fourth best ever day one score for a 96-point lead over defending champion Nafissatou Thiam.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day seven to ten
The four finals of the seventh day centred around the conclusion of the combined events. Katarina Johnson-Thompson defeated Nafi Thiam in the heptathlon with a British record score of 6981 points, which moved her up to sixth on the all-time lists. The second day of the decathlon brought surprises as world record holder Kevin Mayer dropped out and Germany's Niklas Kaul set a championship decathlon best in the javelin to help him surge from eleventh place to the gold medal, making him the youngest winner of the title at age 21.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day seven to ten
The women's 400 metres final was among the fastest ever with five women under 50 seconds for the first time at the championships – 21-year-old Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain seized the lead early on and crossed the line in 48.14 seconds for the third fastest time ever, leaving the Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo in second place with 48.37 seconds (becoming the sixth fastest athlete ever). China's Gong Lijiao defended her women's shot put title, reaching the podium for a sixth straight championships, while silver medallist Danniel Thomas-Dodd made history as Jamaica's first woman to win a global medal in the throws.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day seven to ten
Among the six finals of the eighth day, the men's high jump final helped fill out the stadium for the first time as Qatari Mutaz Essa Barshim won a high quality contest for the host nation. Barshim, Mikhail Akimenko and Ilya Ivanyuk all cleared 2.35 m (7 ft 8+1⁄2 in) before the home athlete topped 2.37 m (7 ft 9+1⁄4 in) to win his country's first gold of the event.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day seven to ten
In the women's 400 metres hurdles final, Americans Dalilah Muhammad and Sydney McLaughlin turned the race into a duel which resulted in Olympic champion Muhammad setting a world record of 52.16 seconds to hold off 20-year-old McLaughlin, who ran the third fastest time ever. Ethiopian Lamecha Girma attempted to break Kenya's winning streak in the men's steeplechase final but was edged out on the line by Kenya's defending champion Conseslus Kipruto, with one hundredth of a second separating the two.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day seven to ten
Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas had a dominant run to win the men's 400 metres final, finishing over half a second ahead of the field and setting a Bahamian record of 43.48 seconds. Gardiner's presence was only possible due to a public fund-raising campaign for his national team, as Hurricane Dorian had devastated the Caribbean nation just one month earlier. The women's discus final was a Cuban affair between Yaime Pérez and Denia Caballero, with Pérez ultimately winning the gold with a fifth round effort of 69.17 m (226 ft 11 in). The first round of the men's and women's 4 × 100 metres relay saw athletes run an African record, a South American record and three national records. Toshikazu Yamanishi took the gold medal in the men's 20 km walk in the overnight session.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day seven to ten
Six finals were scheduled for the ninth day. The men's shot put final saw four men surpass the previous championships record. Only one centimetre separated medallists Tom Walsh, Ryan Crouser, and Joe Kovacs, with Kovacs getting the win in 22.91 m (75 ft 1+3⁄4 in) – the best performance in nearly three decades. Yulimar Rojas was dominant in the women's triple jump final, taking the gold medal with a mark of 15.37 m (50 ft 5 in) – the fourth best jump ever.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day seven to ten
Sifan Hassan became the first woman to achieve a 1500/10,000 m double at the championships, and her winning time of 3:51.95 minutes was a championship and European record. Hassan gave an emotional post-race interview, defending herself against doping accusations which had arisen due to the four-year doping ban of her coach Alberto Salazar in the previous days. Hellen Obiri defended her title in the women's 5000 metres final and ran a championship record of 14:26.72 minutes in order to do so.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day seven to ten
The men's 4 × 100 metres relay final brought a slew of records with the United States winning with a national record time of 37.10 seconds (the third fastest ever) and Great Britain, Japan and Brazil setting continental area records for the next three places. Lelisa Desisa and Mosinet Geremew made it a 1–2 for Ethiopia in the late-night men's marathon, held in easier weather conditions than the women's race.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day seven to ten
On the tenth and final day of the championships, seven finals were held. Malaika Mihambo of Germany won a clear gold in the women's long jump final by producing the twelfth best ever performance of 7.30 m (23 ft 11+1⁄4 in). In the men's 1500 metres final Kenya's Timothy Cheruiyot set a quick pace and surged at the end to take the gold medal. Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda held off Yomif Kejelcha in the men's 10,000 metres final to claim his second world of the year, having already topped the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships podium.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day seven to ten
Anderson Peters of Grenada upset a field of more decorated European athletes in the men's javelin throw final as no one bettered his opening throw of 86.89 m (285 ft 3⁄4 in), while silver medallist Magnus Kirt of Estonia injured himself in the effort to beat his rival. Nia Ali of the United States surprised in the women's 100 metres hurdles final by winning gold in 12.34 seconds, making herself the ninth fastest of all-time and pushing the more favoured Danielle Williams and Kendra Harrison into the minor medals.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Daily highlights, Day seven to ten
The championships was brought to a close with the men's and women's 4 × 400 metres relay finals. The United States won both in world leading times to finish as the medal leader – its haul of 29 medals and 14 gold medals was almost three times that of second-placed Kenya (five golds and eleven medals). Jamaica ranked third on the medal table with three golds and twelve medals – its final bronze coming from the women's 4 × 400 metres relay after a successful appeal against an initial disqualification.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Statistics, Medal table
IAAF does not include the medals won by athletes competing as Authorised Neutral Athletes in their official medal table.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Statistics, Placing table
The Placing table assigns points to the top eight athletes in the final, with eight points to first place, seven to second place, and so on until one point for eighth place. Teams or athletes that do not finish or are disqualified do not receive points.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Statistics, Records
At the 2019 World Athletics Championships, three world records, one world under-20 record, six championships records, 21 area records and 86 national records in athletics were set. Furthermore, two championship combined event bests were set and 23 world-leading performances (WL) were achieved at the competition.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Statistics, Records
Allyson Felix became the most decorated athlete in World Championships, reaching a career total of 13 gold medals through wins in the women's and the mixed 4 × 400 metres relays.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Participants
205 out of the 214 member federations of the IAAF participated in the Championships, as well as an Athlete Refugee Team, for a total of 1,772 athletes out of 1,972 originally entered. Due to the IAAF suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation, confirmed on 23 September by the IAAF Council, Russian athletes competed as Authorised Neutral Athletes. A total of 101 federations entered one athlete only (25 of those athletes were women). IAAF members Libya, Liechtenstein, Montserrat, Norfolk Island, and Tuvalu did not enter any athletes, while the Central African Republic, Dominica, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates originally entered athletes but those did not start for various reasons.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Participants
The gender split between the preliminary entrants was 53% male and 47% female, and IAAF President Sebastian Coe noted after a meeting with the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee that the organisation was looking to extend gender equality to its governing structures also.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Participants, Absences
Several prominent athletes were absent from the competition. The reigning women's 100 metres hurdles world champion Sally Pearson announced her retirement one month before the championships. Several reigning world champions could not attempt to defend their global titles due to injury, including Anita Włodarczyk (women's hammer throw), Wayde van Niekerk (men's 400 m), Ivana Španović (women's long jump), Elijah Manangoi (men's 1500 m), and Éider Arévalo (men's 20 km walk).


2019 World Athletics Championships, Participants, Absences
Among other high-profile injury withdrawals were women's 1500 m world record holder Genzebe Dibaba, 10,000 m world record holder Almaz Ayana, two-time shot put world champion David Storl, Olympic women's pole vault medallist Eliza McCartney, 2017 world sprint hurdles medallist Pamela Dutkiewicz, world champion in the relay Chijindu Ujah, world decathlon runner-up Rico Freimuth, and former European champions Arthur Abele, Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad, Timur Morgunov, and Morhad Amdouni. World medallist Eilidh Doyle was absent due to pregnancy.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Participants, Testosterone rule
The three 2016 Olympic medallists in the women's 800 metres were all excluded from the 2019 World Athletics Championships under the IAAF's testosterone rules. Caster Semenya, Francine Niyonsaba and Margaret Wambui all acknowledged they had a difference in sex development (DSD) which resulted in their bodies producing levels of testosterone above the limits set by the IAAF for women's competition. The IAAF rules stipulate such athletes must take testosterone-reducing medication in order to compete in women's races. Caster Semenya's appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against this rule was ongoing at the time of the World Championships.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Participants, Testosterone rule
All three athletes declined to adhere to the IAAF's ruling and thus could not compete. CAS had previously made a decision in May 2019 to uphold the IAAF's rules on the grounds that they were discriminatory to athletes with a DSD, but that discriminatory action was "a necessary, reasonable and proportionate means of achieving the legitimate objective of ensuring fair competition in female athletics". Kenyan athletes, 800 m national champion Jackline Wambui and Linda Kageha, who was in the mixed relay team, were excluded from selection for Kenya as they refused to submit to a testosterone test. Because of the testosterone rule, 400 metres world No. 3 Aminatou Seyni competed in the women's 200 metres instead of women's 400 metres.


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Working alongside the Local Organising Committee and the Qatar Anti- Doping Commission, the IAAF's Athletics Integrity Unit oversaw an anti-doping programme at the World Championships for the second time, having been created two years earlier. The 2019 World Championships was the first in which national federations were obligated to ensure all athletes they selected had been subject to three out-of-competition tests and one in-competition test prior to the competition. This rule resulted in the exclusion of two Kenyan runners, Michael Kibet and Daniel Simiyu, who had not failed a test but had not been tested sufficiently before Doha.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Anti-doping
At the host venue, around 700 athletes' blood samples were collected as part of the biological passport scheme designed to identify the use of steroids, EPO or human growth hormone. A further 500 in-competition tests are due to take place, mostly urine-based. Samples taken at the World Championships will be transferred to a World Anti- Doping Agency-accredited laboratory outside of the host country, in order to remove conflicts of interest that had affected prior events. In collaboration with the IAAF Athletes' Commission, an athlete education and support site was set up in Doha: the Athletics Integrity Hub. The hub provided information on anti-doping and also support for reporting of illegal gambling, bribery and corruption, harassment and abuse.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Anti-doping
The Russian Athletics Federation was excluded from the World Championships for a second time running as it remained suspended by the IAAF due to systemic doping. The Russian Federation had failed to gain reinstatement that year because tests from the Russian Anti- Doping Agency's Moscow laboratory indicated evidence of manipulation. Russian athletes had to apply to the IAAF to compete under the Authorised Neutral Athlete scheme.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Anti-doping
Although not nationally suspended, Kenya came under scrutiny for a culture of doping, with Brett Clothier of the Athletics Integrity Unit stating that "EPO is readily available and everyone knows where to get it and how to use it" in a documentary released by German broadcaster ZDF shortly before the World Championships.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Anti-doping
The world leader in the men's 100 metres, Christian Coleman, was suspended by the United States Anti- Doping Agency (USADA) after missing three out-of-competition tests within a 12-month period, but successfully appealed a ban on a technicality of the test dates and gained entry to the competition. During the championships, the USADA issued a four-year ban for doping violations to Alberto Salazar, head coach of the Nike Oregon Project – a training group that included several athletes who would go on to medal at the championships.


2019 World Athletics Championships, Anti-doping
Dilshod Nazarov, the reigning Olympic champion in the men's hammer throw and also president of the Tajikistan Athletics Federation, was banned shortly before the competition, after retesting of a sample from the 2011 World Championships in Athletics showed metabolites of Turinabol. Other athletes suspended on anti-doping grounds shortly before the championships were the 2015 women's 800 m world champion Maryna Arzamasova, 2019 Pan American Games women's discus silver medallist Andressa de Morais, the 2018 Commonwealth Games women's 100 m champion Michelle-Lee Ahye, African sprint medallist Carina Horn and Asian long-distance medallist Albert Rop.